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Acrotex Education Bundle Exercises and Quizzes: Northwest Florida State College Department of Mathematics
Acrotex Education Bundle Exercises and Quizzes: Northwest Florida State College Department of Mathematics
Acrotex Education Bundle Exercises and Quizzes: Northwest Florida State College Department of Mathematics
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Department of Mathematics
AcroTEX eDucation Bundle
Exercises and Quizzes
D. P. Story
c 1999-2016 dpstory@acrotex.net
September 15, 2016 Version 3.0
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Online Exercises
3. Short Quizzes with or without Solutions
4. Graded Quizzes with JavaScript
5. Correcting Quizzes with JavaScript
6. Objective-Style Questions
Solutions to Quizzes
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1. Introduction
This is a sample file to give templates of the environments defined in
exerquiz. The file illustrates the exercise, the shortquiz and quiz
environments.
In the case of the quiz environments, only multiple-choice ques-
tions are illustrated. Open ended, or objective style questions are
demonstrated in other sample files.
2. Online Exercises
A well-designed sequences of exercises can be of aid to the student.
The exercise environment makes it easy to produce electronic ex-
ercises. By using the forpaper option, you can also make a paper
version of your exercises. See the aeb man.pdf reference manual.
Exercise 1. Evaluate the integral x2 e2x dx.
These two types can be bundled together using the questions envi-
ronment.
Quiz Answer each of the following. Passing is 100%.
1. Was it in Xanadu did Kubla Kahn a stately pleasure dome decree?
True False
2. In what year did Columbus sail the ocean blue?
1490 1491 1492 1493
Try using the proofing option of exerquiz. In this case, the correct
answer is indicated to the side; useful, perhaps, for proof-reading the
document
By using the *-option, you can create a multiple choice set of question
using check boxes.
Begin Quiz Using the discriminant, b2 − 4ac, respond to each of the
following questions.
1. Is the quadratic polynomial x2 − 4x + 3 irreducible?
Yes No
2. Is the quadratic polynomial 2x2 − 4x + 3 irreducible?
Yes No
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6. Objective-Style Questions
It is possible to pose objective-style questions (fill-in-the-blank). The
demo file for this style question is called jquiztst.pdf (relative link:
jquiztst.pdf). Click on the link to review this demo file.
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Solutions to Quizzes
Solution to Quiz:
In 1492,
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
Profound was the logic in his quest,
to get to the east, he headed west.2
Solution to Quiz:
In 1492,
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
Profound was the logic in his quest,
to get to the east, he headed west.3
Solution to Quiz: Yes, it was Donald Knuth who first created TEX.
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